Swiss medical weekly
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Swiss medical weekly · Nov 2004
Adverse drug events caused by medication errors in medical inpatients.
In view of growing concern in recent years regarding medication errors as causes of adverse drug events (ADEs), we explore the frequency and characteristics of error-associated ADEs in medical inpatients. ⋯ Incident eADEs were observed in 1 out of 250 patients and accounted for approximately 6% of ADEs. In contrast, eADEs accounted for 30% of ADE-related hospital admissions. Hence, in medical inpatients, eADEs represented a small fraction of total incident ADEs, whereas they contributed significantly to hospital admissions.
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Swiss medical weekly · Oct 2004
Practice Guideline GuidelineTreatment and care of elderly persons who are in need of care.
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Swiss medical weekly · Oct 2004
Survey of management of first-ever seizures in a hospital based community.
Epidemiological studies focusing on first-ever seizures have been carried out mainly on community based populations. However, since hospital populations may display varying clinical features, we prospectively analysed patients with first-ever seizure in a hospital based community to evaluate prognosis and the role of complementary investigations in the decision to administer antiepileptic drugs (AED). ⋯ Patients evaluated acutely for first-ever seizure in a hospital setting have severe underlying clinical conditions apparently related to their relatively poor prognosis. Neuroimaging represents the most important paraclinical test in predicting both treatment administration and outcome.